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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 10
(To see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in this series, click on the links.) A digression on ‘faith’ In this post I want to step aside from the business of analysing my great grandfather’s letters to say something about the nature of … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 9
(To see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this series, click on the links.) In the last post I provided some background information about the life of my great grandfather, Charles Edward Robb, and suggested that this might help us to understand … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 8
(To see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 in this series, click on the links.) In the previous post I suggested that some background knowledge about my great grandfather’s life might throw light on the ways in which he ‘performs’ fathering in his … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 7
(To see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 in this series, click on the links.) In the previous post, I noted that it was difficult, as a researcher, to prevent my personal knowledge of my great grandfather’s Methodist faith from influencing my analysis … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 6
(To see Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in this series, click on the links.) I ended the last post by suggesting that a key aim of Charles’ first letter to his son Arthur was to reconcile the latter’s calling as a soldier … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 5
(To see Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 in this series, click on the links.) In the last post I noted that most of my great grandfather’s first letter to his son (which I transcribed here) was devoted to moral exhortation. But what … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 4
(To see Parts 1, 2 and 3 in this series, click on the links) The letter transcribed in the last post offers a useful starting-point for my analysis, not only because it’s the first in the sequence, but also because … Continue reading
Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 3
(Parts 1 and 2 of this series can be found here and here) In the first two posts in this series, I outlined my plan to analyse the ‘performance’ of fatherhood and faith in the letters sent by my great … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 2
(You can find the first post in this series here.) In this post I want to say something about the letters that I propose to analyse in this series, and about the issues raised by using them as data for … Continue reading
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Fatherhood and faith in wartime letters: 1
I want to try something a little different in the next few posts. I want to experiment with using this blog as a space for doing some ‘raw’ data analysis. Why do this online? Well, to be honest, it’s primarily … Continue reading
